Carson Daly is now a suit-wearing anchor on the Today show and you haven’t spent a summer with the TV tuned to MTV since Dick Cheney seemed as bad as it could get, and yet they’re bringing back TRL, Total Request Live.

In pop culture, retroism tends to run on a 20-year cycle—two decades after it happens, it’s ripe for return. Total Request Live hit MTV in September 1998 (and was preceded by MTV Live, which bowed in September 1997), which means it’s prime time to get in ahead of the nostalgia curve. The wise already have—there are…

My fascination with music videos started in high school, when MTV started airing it's iconic countdown show, Total Request Live, or TRL. My somewhat-accidental career as a music video director began around the same time TRL aired it's final episode. Since then, videos have migrated to the internet, budgets have…

Can you handle it? MTV's Total Request Live is, like, totally over! One cannot deny that it's the end of an era — albeit a mediocre era that allowed otherwise uptight stars to get down with the kids in studied expensive jeans-and-tee ensembles and, for New Yorkers, meant a bunch of screaming tourists clogging up 42nd…

More from Jennifer Aniston, whose Vogue interview has been leaking all over the internet: "There is more to me than just a tabloid girl. This whole 'Poor lonely Jen' thing, this idea that I'm so unlucky in love? I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love. I don't feel like I'm supposed to be any further…

Amy Poehler is leaving Saturday Night Live! She'll step away after the November election to give birth to her first child, and she won't be coming back. "It's gonna be really hard — Boyz II Men hard — to say goodbye to yesterday," she says. "But like any good drug, you need to know when to put it down." Amy will still…

Mariah Carey is flying high from her 18th #1 hit "Touch My Body," and she's been all over the place promoting her new album (Oprah yesterday, American Idol tonight), E=MC² which came out today. But remember when things were going so great in her career about seven years ago, specifically when she freaked out in the…

Kim Kardashian was on TRL today promoting her reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians—but made no mention of her Playboy issue that just came out. In the segment we learn that Britney Spears has a crush on Kim. What was her response to that? "I get it from the guys and now I get from the girls." Charming. Kim is…